Flip Your Wig is the fourth studio album by American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in September 1985 through SST Records.
As the band's first self-produced album, they spent months in the studio to achieve higher-quality production for its melodic power pop songs.
"[7] Guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart each wrote roughly half the songs,[6] which continued the band's trend toward power pop and away from the fast, noisy hardcore punk of their earliest material.
5 on the CMJ album charts and received more radio airplay and mainstream press attention than the band's earlier releases, including stories in Creem, Spin,[10] Rolling Stone.
[21] Ira Robbins and John Leland at Trouser Press describe the album as "Positively brilliant — fourteen unforgettable pop tunes played like armageddon were nigh" and rate "Makes No Sense at All" as "one of 1985's best 45s".
[22] AllMusic's review says "Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing.